Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis

<p>1. Regional geology and tectonics of sedimentary basins<br>2. The Earth: Core, mantle and crust<br>3. Age of the oceans<br>4. Plate boundaries and driving mechanisms<br>5. Plate kinematic reconstructions<br>6. Resolving geological enigmas using plate tectonic reconstructions and mantle flow models<br>7. Tectonostratigraphic megasequences and chronostratigraphy<br>8. Fault classification, fault growth and displacement<br>9. Thrust systems and contractional tectonics<br>10. Inverted fault systems and inversion tectonic settings<br>11. Salt- and shale-detached gravity-driven failure of continental margins<br>12. Carbonate systems<br>13. Lake systems and their economic importance<br>14. Clastic shorelines and deltas<br>15. Tidal straits: Basic criteria for recognizing ancient systems from the rock record<br>16. Submarine landslides: Architecture, controlling factors and encironments<br>17. Turbidites and turbidity currents<br>18. Controls on reservoir distribution, architecture and stratigraphic trapping in slope settings<br>19. Geological methods<br>20. Regional tectonics and basin formation: The role of potential field studies - An application to the Mesozoic West and Central African Rift System<br>21. Wide-angle refraction and reflection<br>22. An introduction to seismic reflection data: Acquisition, processing and interpretation<br>23. Sequence stratigraphy<br>24. Concepts of conventional petroleum systems<br>25. The accumulation of organic matter-rich rocks within an earth system's framework<br>26. Modelling fluid flow and petroleum systems in sedimentary basins<br>27. Tectonic and basin maps of the world</p>